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...Achievement of Samuel Johnson, which Bate wrote in 1955, received the Christian Gauss Prize of Phi Beta Kappa as an outstanding book of literary scholarship. His latest work, Prefaces to Criticism appeared...
When cooled close to absolute zero, this core becomes superconductive, does not show a trace of electrical resistance even when placed in the strongest magnetic field that Bell Labs can generate, 88,000 gauss (the unit of magnetism). It can carry more than 1,000 times as much current as a copper wire of the same size at normal temperature. Bellmen believe that it can be coiled into a superpowerful electromagnet with a field of at least 100,000 gauss...
...such supermagnet has yet been built. For one thing, it will surely prove to be extremely violent: its field of 100,000 gauss will exert a force of six tons per sq. in. at the end of the coil. Another difficulty is that the coil will have to be kept near absolute zero, presumably by bathing it in liquid helium, whose high volatility makes it a nightmare to handle...
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, has received a 1960 Christian Gauss prize given by Phi Beta Kappa...
...attack on the elusive mysteries. With $6,000,000 from the U.S. Air Force, M.I.T. will build an ambitious laboratory devoted solely to the study of magnetism. Main feature: the world's most powerful electromagnet-a giant coil that will maintain a continuous magnetic field of 250,000 gauss, some 500,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field...